After working here in the UK for over two years, the time has come for me to branch out on my own. As I'll be starting up my own company once back in South Africa, today is officially my final day as an employee!
I've been looking forward to this day for a long time! I now feel confident in the fact that I am prepared and ready to take on the business world on my own.
Onwards and upwards. This day marks an important step towards owning the game farm.
Friday, 26 March 2010
Thursday, 11 March 2010
Failing to reach my goal
One of goals over the past 18 months has been to buy my first investment property in the UK. My time in the UK is now drawing to a close and although I wanted this, I didn't make happen.
Now I've been racking my my brain to figure out what went wrong. What has lead to me failing to reach this goal? If I can recognise this then I can deal with it and ensure it won't happen again.
The more I think about it the more I realise its not just one thing that I need to work on, it's a combination of factors which each individually could lead to the failure of future ambitions if not dealt with and learnt from. So here goes, these are the stumbling blocks that will never catch me out again.
I didn't tackle it with PERSEVERANCE!
Each little stumbling block which I came across became a new excuse to stop and complain about how hard it was. What I should rather have done is seen each one as a challenge and overcome it immediately. There will always be bumps in the road. Accept this and get over it.
Embarrassingly enough, I must admit at some times I almost found myself wanting to get tripped up and fail. I guess it is easier to fail then to push on and on and on until you reach success. NEVER let this feeling be felt again.
The intense desire I have for my overall goal, the game-farm, is incredibly strong but the desire to achieve this goal of buying an investment property wasn't nearly as fuelled. Reaching large goals is only done by accomplishing smaller goals along the way. Without the small ones the larger ones will never come. Therefore I need to transmute my burning desire for the game-farm into unerring desire for the smaller goals on the road to the game-farm.
I found myself being influenced by and listening to opinions of people who had no idea what they were talking about and even naysayers. Even close friends and family can give "advice" which is really harmful. In the future I will listen to what people have to say, nod and smile, but be very careful what I let effect me.
The opposite of this would be to surround myself with people who are in the business and do know what they are talking about. Listening to them would be very valuable.
I didn't have ABSOLUTE FAITH AND BELIEF that I could achieve the goal
This follows on from not having the desire but also comes from not having the confidence in my own ability to achieve what I had set out to achieve. To get this confidence you need to have a good knowledge of what you are doing. Get this from researching the concept and speaking to people who have already achieved what you are trying to do.
Trust your GUT
I worked with a company who promised to teach me how to find a great investment property opportunity. When I first met them I had a feeling that these people were slack and that they were over promising on what they could deliver. Long story short, they were absolute rubbish and gave terrible service. Trust your gut.
Throwing good money after bad
When the first promises from this company weren't met I decided to use an advanced service of theirs which was very expensive with the hope that they would work a miracle. Not hard to guess that this was a waste of money too. Thank goodness I've learnt these lessons along the way and won't let this happen to me again.
Finally, one thing I've had to realise is that the success principles which I've been learning didn't fail me when trying to reach this goal. I failed the principles by not following them with persistence and conviction.
Now I've been racking my my brain to figure out what went wrong. What has lead to me failing to reach this goal? If I can recognise this then I can deal with it and ensure it won't happen again.
The more I think about it the more I realise its not just one thing that I need to work on, it's a combination of factors which each individually could lead to the failure of future ambitions if not dealt with and learnt from. So here goes, these are the stumbling blocks that will never catch me out again.
I didn't tackle it with PERSEVERANCE!
Each little stumbling block which I came across became a new excuse to stop and complain about how hard it was. What I should rather have done is seen each one as a challenge and overcome it immediately. There will always be bumps in the road. Accept this and get over it.
Embarrassingly enough, I must admit at some times I almost found myself wanting to get tripped up and fail. I guess it is easier to fail then to push on and on and on until you reach success. NEVER let this feeling be felt again.
The intense desire I have for my overall goal, the game-farm, is incredibly strong but the desire to achieve this goal of buying an investment property wasn't nearly as fuelled. Reaching large goals is only done by accomplishing smaller goals along the way. Without the small ones the larger ones will never come. Therefore I need to transmute my burning desire for the game-farm into unerring desire for the smaller goals on the road to the game-farm.
I found myself being influenced by and listening to opinions of people who had no idea what they were talking about and even naysayers. Even close friends and family can give "advice" which is really harmful. In the future I will listen to what people have to say, nod and smile, but be very careful what I let effect me.
The opposite of this would be to surround myself with people who are in the business and do know what they are talking about. Listening to them would be very valuable.
I didn't have ABSOLUTE FAITH AND BELIEF that I could achieve the goal
This follows on from not having the desire but also comes from not having the confidence in my own ability to achieve what I had set out to achieve. To get this confidence you need to have a good knowledge of what you are doing. Get this from researching the concept and speaking to people who have already achieved what you are trying to do.
Trust your GUT
I worked with a company who promised to teach me how to find a great investment property opportunity. When I first met them I had a feeling that these people were slack and that they were over promising on what they could deliver. Long story short, they were absolute rubbish and gave terrible service. Trust your gut.
Throwing good money after bad
When the first promises from this company weren't met I decided to use an advanced service of theirs which was very expensive with the hope that they would work a miracle. Not hard to guess that this was a waste of money too. Thank goodness I've learnt these lessons along the way and won't let this happen to me again.
Finally, one thing I've had to realise is that the success principles which I've been learning didn't fail me when trying to reach this goal. I failed the principles by not following them with persistence and conviction.
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